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European Parliament sues Commission for failing to hold members accountable over rule of law
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The European Parliament has decided to sue the European Commission after the executive's repeated refusal to activate a new conditionality mechanism that can freeze EU funds for member states suspected of breaching EU law.
The lawsuit was submitted on Friday by the Parliament's legal service before the European Court of Justice (ECJ), based in Luxembourg.
"We expect the European Commission to act in a consistent manner and live up to what President von der Leyen stated during our last plenary discussion on this subject. Words have to be turned into deeds," said the EU Parliament's president David Sassoli in a statement.
MEPs have for weeks threatened the Commission with the lawsuit in an attempt to pressure the executive into activating the
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